13.01.2019
Kammenos leaves cabinet, Tsipras scampers for parliamentary majority
Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SYRIZA
13.01.2019
Ruling coalition collapses, Tsipras seeks confidence vote
Kammenos has been replaced as defence minister by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
10.01.2019
Parliamentary majority hangs in the balance, snap election possible
At a crucial meeting on 11 January, junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos will make clear whether he and his party will continue to be part of the government’s parliamentary majority
09.01.2019
Mitsotakis declares Tsipras, SYRIZA a threat to democracy
'The dark face of the Tsipras administration casts a heavy shadow on our democracy because when the judiciary is used as a tool for political prosecution democracy is imperiled'.
03.01.2019
Editorial: Preconditions
Minority governments can function effectively in countries in which there is a climate of consensus and in which political culture is not betrayed by divisive rhetoric.
02.01.2019
Tsipras, Zaev rally forces to pass Prespa Accord
There are concerns in Greece that MPs who have declared their support may switch at the last moment, so as to ensure their political survival in the general election.
24.12.2018
Editorial: Raising the bar
The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition is rushing to make citizens believe that the country is returning to normalcy and that due to its goodness it is handing out money and hiring pledges right and left.
19.12.2018
Editorial: Explanations
The Prime Minister’s Office has chosen not to respond to questions that have arisen regarding Manolis Petsitis.
17.12.2018
Editorial: Stragglers
Greece will stay at the tail end of eurozone states, and Greeks who are in the lower economic brackets of salaried employees will remain the poor relatives in the family.
13.12.2018
Editorial: Adages
Those parties which were condemned by the government as constituting the “old” political system left their old bad habits behind, and the “new regime” copied all those habits in a bid to ensure its political survival.
06.12.2018
Editorial: Elections
Political normalcy requires clears rules of the game. It means that a government does not live and breathe only with elections in mind, without setting their date.
03.12.2018
Ex-SYRIZA leader lambastes his former protege and successor, Alexis Tsipras
Alavanos said that the social benefits and handouts announced by Tsipras are a pittance in comparison to wage and pension cuts and the disastrous effect of over-taxation.
26.11.2018
Editorial: The bill
By all appearances, there is an emerging current in the ruling party that favours early elections even before the local and European Parliament Parliament elections
24.11.2018
Editorial: Mobilisation
On the crucial question, “Which party will bring economic growth?” New Democracy leads ruling SYRIZA by a whopping 30 percentage points.
20.11.2018
Editorial: Symbol
Simitis has unwittingly been transformed into a symbol of resistance against all those who, armed with fake news and fetid propaganda, dream of becoming the Maduros or Erdogans of Greece.
19.11.2018
Editorial: Desecration
Acts of violence besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry, and not division.
16.11.2018
Editorial: Caliphs
The aim of the criminalisation of politics is obvious, to perpetuate suspicions about the activity of SYRIZA’s political opponents, and especially those who represent the centre-left.
15.11.2018
Editorial: Without rules
The government has polarised the political system. It has attempted to divide society. It has manufactured enemies. It has sent messages of intolerance.
